There's a pictures-only preview up of the first issue of the Hellcat miniseries, which I'd been quite looking forward to based on her appearances in The Avengers way back when.
The art isn't quite what I'd expected, but it looks all right, particularly given Hellcat's history. Patsy Walker is in fact a Golden Age character; she was the star of a girls' comic that ran from 1945-65. She made occasional cameo appearances in early Silver Age Marvel books, and in the 1970s she became a full-fledged superheroine. If I recall correctly, she was a friend of Hank McCoy, the Beast (an Avenger at the time), and happened to be along during a mission of some sort when she came across Tigra's old costume (from her pre-anthropomorphic days as The Cat), put it on, and just like that, Patsy the model became Hellcat.
She had more new backstory than that, of course--in an early reworking of older characters, Patsy was said to have eventually married her beau from the Patsy Walker comic, Buzz Baxter. Poor Buzz, his character no longer defined by the teen-romance genre stereotype, became an abusive husband and all-around stereotypical corporate bad guy--not to mention, apparently, a genuine super-villain at one point. As for Patsy, she spent some time in the Defenders, married the Son of Satan, and was, I believe, dead at one point.
Despite all that, Patsy always seemed to maintain her optimism, and was definitely a glass-half-full type. I'm hoping that remains the case in the upcoming mini.
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